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krisko101
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Joined: 07 Nov 2007
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Hey guys,
Usually when a professor gives an open-ended paper assignment, I groan in dismay, and spend four weeks putting off coming up with a thesis or topic. This time I knew immediately where I could go for ideas. My prof wants me to come up with 10 words that have entered the English language in the past decade. (There's more to the paper than this obviously, but I won't bore you with those details).
Do you guys have any favorite words that you know entered the English language either through WoW, or any other MMO?
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Odus
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Joined: 06 Oct 2007
Posts: 2595
Location: Scotland
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Posted: 11/07/07 - 07:29 Post subject: Evolution of Massively Multiplayer Linguistics
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well in the past decade computer social networks were created. Best to go with insults e.g. "noob", "1337", "trolling" etc..
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krisko101
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Posted: 11/07/07 - 12:03 Post subject:
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Well, I'm trying to stick with words that have evolved in MMO's. Words that are either universal to gamers or specific to gamers within a gaming community.
Some of the ones I've got right now are:
roflcopter
frag
zerg
pwnd
That's more or less along the lines of what I'm looking for.
Noob is good!
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Odus
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Posted: 11/07/07 - 15:30 Post subject:
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do they need to be REGISTERED words in the english language, or can they just be things alot of people say?
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krisko101
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Posted: 11/07/07 - 16:42 Post subject:
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No.. Slang is definitely encouraged.
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shikitiki123
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Posted: 11/08/07 - 02:05 Post subject:
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lawl woot l33t ftw!
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